Does Disney World increase # of reservations on weekends?

[sharon_wv]

I am headed to Disney the first week of June. Looking at the park reservations, only week days are at capacity (for MK and HS specifically). The weekends are noted as "green" meaning all parks have availability . When I made reservations months ago, I have Saturday our resort day because I assumed that weekends are busier than weekdays. Was that a wrong assumption, or does Disney allow more reservations to be made on weekends? Do weekends end up turning yellow or red, just closer to the time? I'm just curious...

As a follow up to my first question, would you recommend I change my strategy and make a reservation on the weekend and use a weekday that the parks I reserved are at capacity currently as our resort day instead?

Thanks for the insight!

 

[Scooley01]

I am also curious about this. I wonder if it's an issue where we ALL assumed the weekends would be busy, so we ALL made weekday reservations, leaving the weekends actually pretty open

 

[AnnaKristoff2013]

They are definitely dynamically scaling their reservations. You can see from touringplans historical data that there have been days which have been crowd level 5 ranging up to crowd level 10 that have been sold out. If they weren't dynamically scaling then the only sold out dates should be crowd level 10.

 

[Mr. Drauer]

I am headed to Disney the first week of June. Looking at the park reservations, only week days are at capacity (for MK and HS specifically). The weekends are noted as "green" meaning all parks have availability . When I made reservations months ago, I have Saturday our resort day because I assumed that weekends are busier than weekdays. Was that a wrong assumption, or does Disney allow more reservations to be made on weekends? Do weekends end up turning yellow or red, just closer to the time? I'm just curious...

As a follow up to my first question, would you recommend I change my strategy and make a reservation on the weekend and use a weekday that the parks I reserved are at capacity currently as our resort day instead?

Thanks for the insight!

No one has any idea of how they are doing the reservations. Some Florida AP's are blocked on weekends, but by all accounts, Saturdays are busier than any weekday across all 4 parks. Epcot is much busier on Saturday / Sunday afternoons and evenings than any other day. Schools in the local area will be out by then, so locals may be going more than at current times.

 

[JoyfulHeart]

We have a trip in mid June so Dh & I have been watching the lines each day, and we have both noticed the weekends seemed to have lighter lines. I don't know if this is due to the amount of people in the park or more workers ( so you have more shows, meet n greats, restaurant seats, etc...). Both a week day and a weekend can be "sold out" but the weekend tends to have better lines. At least that's what we noticed in the app. So we have been wondering about the weekends as well.

 

[MomOTwins]

Just because a park is sold out does not mean all people with park reservations are in the park rope drop to close. A local AP holder is more likely to spend a full day in a park on a weekend, whereas on a weekday they might come for a few hours in the evening to have dinner and ride a couple things. Similarly a park might be sold out thursday/friday but some of those people are arriving for a weekend and just in the park in the evening; or monday/tuesday they are catching a couple rides in the morning before heading to the airport after a weekend stay. So you can see how a park might have the same # of people with ride reservations but still feel more crowded on weekends—not because more people have reserved the park, but because people are spending more hours in the park.

 

[JFDIS]

I think they are herding everyone like cattle into the park(s) they want them to go to. If only Animal Kingdom is available on a Wednesday then you will choose Animal Kingdom. That’s just my guess.

 

[mdoc]

Maybe they're able to have more staffing on the weekends, so capacity would be higher?? That's the only thing I can think of.